ἴσκαι
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- ὕσκαι (húskai)
Etymology
Unknown. If the variant is reliable, it would point to a Pre-Greek word.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ís.kai̯/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈis.kɛ/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈis.cɛ/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈis.ce/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈis.ce/
Noun
ἴσκαι • (ískai) f (genitive ἰσκῶν); first declension
- (in the plural) fungus growing on oaks and walnut trees, used as a cautery
Declension
First declension of αἱ ἴσκαι; τῶν ἰσκῶν (Attic)
Case / # | Plural | ||||||||||||
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Nominative | αἱ ἴσκαι hai ískai | ||||||||||||
Genitive | τῶν ἰσκῶν tôn iskôn | ||||||||||||
Dative | ταῖς ἴσκαις taîs ískais | ||||||||||||
Accusative | τᾱ̀ς ἴσκᾱς tā̀s ískās | ||||||||||||
Vocative | ἴσκαι ískai | ||||||||||||
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Further reading
- “ἴσκαι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἴσκαι in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN